Wow. Christmas has come and gone. It's hard to believe. I realize that I have not posted one post about Christmas and our festivities. Well, I did post my Twas the Night before Christmas post...but other than that I was MIA in Christmas blogland. But since this is MY blog and I can reminisce if I want to (you should hear the song playing loudly in my head right now)...I will allow you take a peek into the Christmas lives of the Flamingo flock over the next couple of days.
Ok...I probably have lost another reader or 2 over the next few days, now that you know it will not be that exciting.
But here goes anyway....
The tree. We love the tradition of choosing a tree. I for one am completely wierd and perhaps "scrooge-like" in that I would prefer a green plastic tree. Seriously. Real trees are such a mess and I actually am not fond of the smell of pine. But there would be a revolt from the Rockstar Nurse himself, so we will continue the agony of the real tree.
Now, the other "pathetic" part in our tree tradition is that we have 1 special place we go every year for our tree.
Lowes.
We go to Lowes for a tree.
We did try a real "cut your own" farm one year. But $50 later decided to find somewhere else.
And quite frankly, the trees at Lowes are nice and cheaper.
And the tradition of picking a tree lasts all but 2 minutes. The kids are freezing each year!
And poor Lil' Rocker. We woke him up from a nap to go pick a tree. But he thought we were going to go get pizza (which we always do after the tree buying episode)...he was crying because he was SOOO cold and just kept saying "zza" , "zza".
Poor lil' guy. (I bet he would be on my "fake tree" side :)
See how nostalgic this tree thing can be?
Lowes. Friggin cold air. Crying children.
Why would anyone want to change this tradition?!
7 comments:
PRICELESS!
See this is why we have a fake tree! LOL
Too funny! We do the "fake tree" thing. I remember one year as a kid getting a real tree and my dad and I were allergic and sneezed for the entire month it was is our house....never again! But I have always thought it would be fun to get a real one and until now I was a little jealous of the people that had this tradition...but I feel better about my plastic tree now:)
Love it ... LOWES! We also have tried the "go cut your own" thing and Cory just ends up getting frustrated because his saw is never sharp enough to really do a good job. So, we go and buy one that has already been cut too. Maybe someday we will try the "cut your own" again! It is freezing though ... isn't it? However, I must say that I am all about the "real trees" ... just one of those things I will always need to have to make Christmas special!
That definitely looks like it is worth every minute!
Thanks for reminding me why we use an artificial tree! I enjoyed the bribery part of the story....it's always best to use some kind of bate (pizza, etc) to get the kiddos to cooperate:) Not that I've EVER done that myself....
Not only did we do a fake tree but this year I switched to a 3 foot (in their dreams maybe!) table top tree. I thought my hubby would revolt and put up the big tree downstairs but I reminded him who always takes the thing down - ME! I informed him I would NOT be taking down a big tree. That put an end to the revolt. = ) The inlaws fly in tomorrow so my tree will stay up a couple of more days.
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